The Urantia Book -- Part IV. The Life And
Teachings Of JesusPAPER 134
The Transition Years

P1483:1,134:0.1
During the Mediterranean journey Jesus had carefully studied the people he
met and the countries through which he passed, and at about this time he reached
his final decision as to the remainder of his life on earth. He had fully
considered and now finally approved the plan which provided that he be born
of Jewish parents in Palestine, and he therefore deliberately returned to
Galilee to await the beginning of his lifework as a public teacher of truth;
he began to lay plans for a public career in the land of his father Joseph's
people, and he did this of his own free will. P1483:2,134:0.2
Jesus had found out through personal and human experience that Palestine was
the best place in all the Roman world wherein to set forth the closing chapters,
and to enact the final scenes, of his life on earth. For the first time he
became fully satisfied with the program of openly manifesting his true nature
and of revealing his divine identity among the Jews and gentiles of his native
Palestine. He definitely decided to finish his life on earth and to complete
his career of mortal existence in the same land in which he entered the human
experience as a helpless babe. His Urantia career began among the Jews in
Palestine, and he chose to terminate his life in Palestine and among the Jews.